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Naming No Man's Land

By Paul Carter

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Naming No Man's Land

By Paul Carter

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This book is a practice-based exploration of the politics and poetics of replacing colonial placenames with Indigenous ones. From a horizon of case-studies in Western Australia, the study develops a lively dialogue with international critical toponymy theory and with older etymological approaches to place renaming and legitimation. The author shows how renaming raises fundamental questions of meaning, reference and cross-cultural equivalence.
Recognising the 'sense of place' values that accrue to placenames, Carter argues that placenames have a creative as well as discursive function: they are talking points that bring places into being. For this reason, to decolonize toponymy involves a postcolonial poetics. Naming No Man's Land argues for a practical, community-shaped toponymic poetics that escapes from the binarist logic of imposition/erasure, showing that, when the principle that 'places are made after their stories' is followed, new creative mechanisms of co-existence can emerge. A must read for anyone engaged in postcolonial studies, creativity studies, cultural geography, sociolinguistics, historical ethnography, eco-criticism, environmental humanities, (Australian) Aboriginal studies, and related disciplines.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2025-09-20
Publication Date:
2025-09-20
Publisher:
Springer
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3031606906
ISBN13:
9783031606908
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
417 g
Height:
155 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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